Petty Democrats want to remove Reagan’s name from airport


'But citizen, it has always been known as Obama National Airport'

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board chairman H.R. Crawford told the panel at its Wednesday meeting that he heard some congresscritters talking about removing President Ronald Reagan’s name from DC’s airport.

MWAA spokeswoman Tara Hamilton tried to minimize the fallout that is already hitting the ground inside the Beltway:

“It was just a discussion. We’re not aware of anything specific.”

Why does the Left always preface its defense of the indefensible with “It was just…?” “It was just about sex.” “It was just talk.” “It was just a fetus.”

We all know the seething hatred liberals still harbor for Reagan, twenty years after he left the White House and five years after his death. This, despite the fact that he rebuilt our nation’s military, gave Americans reason to feel good about their country’s future again and helped to help free millions of Eastern Europeans from communist oppression, all after the misery of the Carter years.

Can they be so partisan and petty to want to rewrite history after an airport had already been renamed in our 40th president’s honor?

I know, I know. Rhetorical question.

- JP


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I hope they try it.

Lammo (Diary) Thursday, July 2nd at 6:38PM EST (link)

Maybe that will wake up the slumbering masses and finally get them mad as you know where.

Don’t be so open minded that your brains fall out. (John Corapi, The Black Sheep Dog)

I agree, I hope they try it

Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, July 2nd at 6:43PM EST (link)

we could make a nice commercial on this. Remember, the left pretended to respect Reagan in order to compare him favorably to Bush. They did this because Reagan was gone, that is how they like Republicans, dead. If they try to do something like this, something that is the ultimate dishonor, we can crush them.*

* we can only crush them if we pull our collective heads out and use someone like the guy that made Reagan’s “Morning in America”. Basically we can only make use of this if we get rid of everyone in charge of promoting Repubs today and find someone with talent and a clue.

Molon Labe!

"Talent and a clue"

Flagstaff (Diary) Thursday, July 2nd at 7:35PM EST (link)

That would be nice. Also would be a change we could live with.

“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964

 
 
 

Now that I think about this......

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Thursday, July 2nd at 7:02PM EST (link)

…..I’m kind of surprised they didn’t go for it on the first day of the 111th Session.

{ /end serious section. }

{ begin semi-snark }

Maybe President Getting-A-New-Quran-From-CAIR just makes the “change” by Exec. Order and he leaves it to Press Secretary Cranky Pants to break the news gently and in ‘a completely straightforward manner’ to everyone.

{ /end semi-snark }

{ begin dangerous snark }

The mind wanders……… Ooooh, I got it…..

The Barack Hussein Obama Flying Leap Into Shari’a Airport

DHS facilities include……

The Cynthia McKinney Electronic “Wide-Eyed” Strip-Search-Booth.
(Used for DHS Certified Domestic Terrorism Suspects Only)

Customer amenities…..

The Patrick Kennedy “Get Ready To Fly” Express Bar and The Ted Kennedy “Get REALLY Ready To Fly Pub.

The Mark Sanford “Business Trip” Lounge & Untraceable Phone Call Executive Suite.

{ /end dangerous snark }

I’ll stop now. ;)

Cheers !

 

Press Secretary Cranky Pants

muffin Thursday, July 2nd at 7:15PM EST (link)

You made me laugh. I sure needed that. Had a good laugh yesterday when a friend called BHO “His Royal Hiney”

We need to laugh to keep from crying.

Thanks.

Fortitudine vincimus – By endurance we conquer

 

Maybe we should take out JFK from Lincoln Center

Daezy Thursday, July 2nd at 8:06PM EST (link)

… for heaven’s sake!

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. ~ Ronald Reagan
http://uslibertyjournal.blogspot.com/

 

Tells where their priorities are

nohone2 Thursday, July 2nd at 8:14PM EST (link)

Remove Reagan’s name from an air port. A man whodid all those things mentioned in the OP, and so much more.

Then we have an airport in PA. A symbol of a complete waste of tax payer money,an airport no one wants to use, an airport to nowhere. And they want to leave the name Murtha attached to it.

 

Ok, let's rename these as well:

izoneguy (Diary) Thursday, July 2nd at 8:23PM EST (link)

The Navy named its newest and most fearsome submarine the USS Jimmy Carter, honoring a former submariner who became the 39th president of the United States.

Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway, an Interstate freeway in Texas

LBJ Elementary School in California

Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive

John F. Kennedy International Airport

John F. Kennedy Space Center

John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway

The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.

I think we should leave LBJ freeway as it is

jarrod21 Thursday, July 2nd at 8:49PM EST (link)

Speaking as someone who drives on that gigantic ill-conceived cluster f every single day…it’s emblematic of the LBJ presidency as a whole.

Go ahead, Dems.

swami7774 (Diary) Thursday, July 2nd at 9:17PM EST (link)

Make my day.

Today, there is a name for the political doctrine that rejoices in scarcity of everything except government. The name is environmentalism.

 

Go ahead, Dems.

swami7774 (Diary) Thursday, July 2nd at 9:17PM EST (link)

Make my day.

Today, there is a name for the political doctrine that rejoices in scarcity of everything except government. The name is environmentalism.

 

Since I can't stand Johnson, I just call it "635".

scottbomb (Diary) Thursday, July 2nd at 9:40PM EST (link)

But I always take pride in the “President George Bush Turnpike” (although I detest toll roads).

www.HowObamaGotElected.com

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” – Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

I say we remove Woodrow Wilson from the bridge-nt

DONTREADONME (Diary) Thursday, July 2nd at 9:45PM EST (link)

I was always confused about the George Bush Turnpike

jarrod21 Friday, July 3rd at 2:35PM EST (link)

Is it 43 or 41?

I think it's 41

scottbomb (Diary) Monday, July 6th at 2:30PM EST (link)

If I’m not mistaken, highways aren’t normally named after presidents currently in office (as 190 was built during his term). Also, the DOT would have probably followed the common nomenclature and included the “W.” to distinguish the highway as honoring the 43.

www.HowObamaGotElected.com

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” – Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

 
 
 

I try to use the George Bush instead of the LBJ

izoneguy (Diary) Thursday, July 2nd at 10:06PM EST (link)

I live in Plano so I hardly drive on LBJ any longer – thank god.
121 is now open from Coit to 35 and the speed limit is 70. Hardly any traffic. I would not want to drive on LBJ if you paid me.

The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.

 
 

Jimma' Carter in command of a nuclear sub

olsmithie (Diary) Thursday, July 2nd at 11:22PM EST (link)

is just about the scariest mental picture I can possibly imagine.

Reagan earned his honors. Leave ‘em alone.

Regards

 
 

My Guess Is That They'll Pull Republican Names Off *Everything*

IJB Thursday, July 2nd at 9:46PM EST (link)

Even stuff named after Lincoln.

But any McKinley, Taft, Coolidge, Eisenhower, Reagan or Bush, etc. stuff will all get the name change.

This is how the New Left works – they really believe they can rewrite history a la “1984″.

Believe me – this is just their first shot. It won’t be anything close to their last. There won’t be evidence that there were ever Republicans at all when they’re done, if they get their way…

 

Probably call it local option.

naraht Thursday, July 2nd at 9:50PM EST (link)

My guess is that the Democrats won’t change the name, they’ll just declare that the county that the Airport is in will get to decide. The Airport isn’t in DC, its across the river in Arlington County, which is arguably the most liberal county in the State of Virginia. (Not just that the County Board has been 5 Dem, 0 GOP for the last decade, but honestly the population as well)

Probably the closest equivalent to this I’ve seen is probably Cape Kennedy. The Federal Government in 1963 changed the name of not just the space center, but the town from Cape Canaveral to Cape Kennedy. Ten years later, the locals got the Federal Government to let them change the name of their city back.

naraht, bless you

jddavid Friday, July 3rd at 2:26AM EST (link)

Cape Canaveral was my favourite in 1960 i was insulted when them wise guys changed it to that whatcha-call-it name.
can they change name of airport near New York that was changed too to that whatcha-call-it name?

Correction...

naraht Friday, July 3rd at 1:36PM EST (link)

It wasn’t the town that got its name changed, it was the geographical name of the cape itself, which is federally controlled. (The Federal government could change Long Island (in New York) to Obama Island. It wouldn’t change the name of anything on Long Island though…

But if Congress lets the locals vote on what it would be, it’s back to Washington National Airport. (By locals, I think anything out to about 20-25 miles from Ronald Reagan National Airport.) I have no idea if there exists a circle around the airport that would be large enough to get a conservative Majority. By the time the circle gets big enough to include a significant number of Virginia Republicans, the circle has started including the Baltimore Suburbs.

Randy

 
 
 

ha that's ridiculous

cannedjam (Diary) Thursday, July 2nd at 10:10PM EST (link)

Slightly off topic but here in NYC they just changed the name of the Triboro Bridge to the RFK bridge in the middle of a recession costing tax payers millions of dollars, despite the fact that if you now ask for directions to the RFK bridge people will have no idea what the heck you are talking about. Also the irony of naming a bridge after a Kennedy kind of tickles the funny bone.

I think that if changing the name of a major structure or building requires millions of dollars worth of map/street sign revisions it is not worth even considering it regardless of motivation.

On a side note, I think it should be illegal for any sitting politician to have their name put on a project, just ask anyone who has ever been to West Va. Sen Byrd anyone?

http://cannedjam.com

Some politians thought it would be better to hold off on naming something after themseles

Richard Mullins (Diary) Thursday, July 2nd at 11:35PM EST (link)

I think about the Late John Connally who didn’t want Loop 410 to be named after him while he was living. He had some decency in that regard, unlike other politions.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

well considering...

cannedjam (Diary) Friday, July 3rd at 12:29AM EST (link)

corporations pay millions of dollars for naming rights to stadiums I find it crazy that sitting politician can slap their name on huge public projects, further perpetuating their “brand”. I really see no difference. They are just doing a job, and that should be reward enough, well that and the crazy pension and life long benefits.

I don’t have a wing named for me at work because I meet all my deadlines.

http://cannedjam.com

 
 

Dead at least 50 years before anything could be named

Achance (Diary) Friday, July 3rd at 4:54AM EST (link)

for them would be a good rule. Even before Sen. Stevens’ troubles, I found it inappropriate that they’d named the Anchorage Airport for him and right across from the airport is the train station that foolishly allows arriving tourists to be whisked through Anchorage before they can spend any money named for Alaska Railroad former chairman and former Governor Bill Sheffield, also still very much alive. Sheffield is notable for being Alaska’s only governor to face impeachment. He hadn’t gotten the memo that said the old “If you can’t give a contract to a friend, who can you give one to?” rule was no longer in effect.

In Vino Veritas

agreed

cannedjam (Diary) Friday, July 3rd at 11:27AM EST (link)

it’s the same reason living people can’t be on a postage stamp, or currency.

http://cannedjam.com

 
 
 

Even winners need some direction

Deskpilot (Diary) Thursday, July 2nd at 11:01PM EST (link)

Some pre-printed business cards with GPS coordinates to be handed out to anyone with an “Obama / Obama/Bidne bumper sticker:
{QUOTE}
Because there are too many
turns and not enough gas station
landmarks in NYC, use thes for your GPS
to get you to the Kennedy bridge:
41°22’24.25″N
70°27’13.15″W
Have a safe drive
{UNQUOTE}

It’ll take you to the Kennedy Bridge
http://www.satellite-sightseer.com/id/1671

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can still read it in English, You’re Welcome
Deskpilot, AM(H)1 (AW), USN (Ret)

 

New name...

mbecker908 (Diary) Friday, July 3rd at 12:18AM EST (link)

The Dr. George Tiller Memorial Airport.

A naming for Tiller is coming, but not for an airport

civil truth (Diary) Friday, July 3rd at 12:34AM EST (link)

When the death camps get established, they will be named:

The George Tiller Education Center
or perhaps
The George Tiller Retirement Home
or perhaps
The George Tiller Release* Center

*Literary reference

The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis

http://www.gmsplace.com/

loose tags correction

civil truth (Diary) Friday, July 3rd at 12:35AM EST (link)

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The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis

http://www.gmsplace.com/

 

Good Lord, I hope I do not end up in any of those place-nt

DONTREADONME (Diary) Friday, July 3rd at 12:37AM EST (link)
 
 

So...

BrianGarst (Diary) Friday, July 3rd at 2:59AM EST (link)

What can we start looking to remove FDR’s name from?

 

Trouble is, we don't have the votes to name or rename anything

Achance (Diary) Friday, July 3rd at 5:06AM EST (link)

or to stop them from doing so. If they want to rename it the Che Guevara National Airport, they can – and I suspect a lot of them would like to do just that so they could “reach out” to their Cuban soul mates.

In Vino Veritas

 

The article you linked

LibRick (Diary) Friday, July 3rd at 6:24AM EST (link)

is an opinion column and sources heresay — H.R. Crawford saying “he heard talk on Capital Hill.” No mention of congressmen or political party.

However, it wouldn’t surprise me if a name change was attempted. It’s only a matter of time until the names of all public facilities are sold/rented to the highest bidder.

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Or (more likely) sold to the highest campaign contributor -nt-

civil truth (Diary) Friday, July 3rd at 10:27AM EST (link)

The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis

http://www.gmsplace.com/

That's one likely scenario

LibRick (Diary) Friday, July 3rd at 1:39PM EST (link)

but I think it’s more likely that states and municipalities, in their never ending quest for addition revenue, will start putting the names of public works, monuments, parks, etc., up to corporate sponsorship. — Example: Golden Gate bridge becomes the Golden Google bridge, with a big Google billboard across the spans. Doubt the toll would go down, though.